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To be updated. Review
of 'Where We Live' by Artist June Hobson, Part of Loft Space Project,
Curator Jo Derbyshire, Liverpool, England, 2007.
The exhibition of ‘Where We Live’ by the artist June Rose Hobson, part of the Loft Space platform curated by Jo Derbyshire, presented a collection of photographs, collage and paintings. These are described by the artist as: ‘Reflections of the outer world captured … Highlighting the variety of events, and happening, available at any one time in the city. A positive portrayal of the optimism of the people’. The photographers were taken with a disposable camera. However, they have the characteristic of a pin-hole camera. The docks have a sense of isolation, as though Hobson is referencing the city under development and traces of fractured memories. A sense of desire is expressed, nostalgic, but a celebration of the new metropolitan and re-packaging of the city. Within the various art in the centre of one wall is a home-made card. This has words hand written annotated to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of Liverpool. The dominant placing of this text within the art makes a statement by the artist that she feels a sense of place and identity in this historical time of cultural transitions. The collage appears like an ideas board derived from media clippings, which relate to the changes and events happening under the banner of culture in Liverpool. There is painted a river that intervenes through the images. Hobson relates back the historical significance of the river, which was the socio-economic strong hold for the city and still holds great importance, but now more in concept. The paintings in the exhibition are of a naive style and painterly. The compositions derived from the imagination of the Hobson and embody a sense of idealism. Although in these paintings, some figurative and others abstract, there is detected notion of joy, a place of memory untouched by regeneration. During each exhibition that rotates weekly, there is a resident poet, Andrew Taylor, who I was fortunate to meet on the opening evening of Hobson’s exhibition. Taylor explained about his current research to the Loft Space and how he is analyzing this platform to express in his creative writing.
Further information on the upcoming projects at the Loft Space, contact Jo Derbyshire (Curator of Loft Space Project) on aprilskies1204@aol.com or 07946353251. Viewing is by appointment (www.joderbyshire.co.uk). The next series of exhibitions are: 25
February 2007 - 03 March 2007 4
March 2007 - 10 March 2007 11
March 2007- 17 March 2007
18 March 2007 - 24 March 2007 25
March 2007 - 31 March 2007 22
April 2007 - 28 April 2007 |
